Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Charge domain successive approximation analog-to-digital converter
- Patent Title (中): 电荷域逐次逼近模数转换器
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Application No.: US12373884Application Date: 2007-07-04
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Publication No.: US07961131B2Publication Date: 2011-06-14
- Inventor: Jan Craninckx
- Applicant: Jan Craninckx
- Applicant Address: BE Leuven
- Assignee: IMEC
- Current Assignee: IMEC
- Current Assignee Address: BE Leuven
- Agency: McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP
- Priority: EP07100741 20070118
- International Application: PCT/EP2007/056727 WO 20070704
- International Announcement: WO2008/006751 WO 20080117
- Main IPC: H03M1/12
- IPC: H03M1/12

Abstract:
An analog to digital conversion circuit and method is presented. The analog to digital circuit (100) comprises a first capacitor (103), arranged for being switchably (102) connected on one side to an input voltage (101), at least one successive approximation circuit (104), a comparator (108) arranged for outputting a sign indicative of the difference between the voltage on the first capacitor (103) and a comparison voltage (109), and a control block (110), arranged for converting said comparator's output into steering signals and in a digital output signal. The successive approximation circuit comprises a second capacitive structure (106), switchably connected to a pre-charge circuit (107) arranged for pre-charging the second capacitive structure (106), whereby the second capacitive structure (106) is connected in parallel with the first capacitor (103) via a charge copying circuit (105). The steering signals comprise of a signal for steering (112) said charge copying circuit (105) and for steering (113) the pre-charge circuit (107).
Public/Granted literature
- US20100052957A1 Charge Domain Successive Approximation Analog-to-Digital Converter Public/Granted day:2010-03-04
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